How The Public’s Comfort With Travel Will Affect The Recovery
Long-Term Changes Expected, Similar to 9/11, Great Recession
While concerns over COVID-19 and resulting global travel restrictions significantly reduced trips taken in the past year, travel industry professionals say the future is brighter than it may seem.
As vaccination efforts continue, they say the pandemic will have some lasting effects on how and where people will travel, but overall, the travel industry itself will recover as it has after previous disruptions.
After both 9/11 and the Great Recession, experts predicted travel would never be the same as people would be afraid to travel overseas because of terrorism and a third of hotels would go out of business during the recession, said Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association.
